The Bad News About How Quickly Patients Relapse After Treatment Article Select ratingGive it 1/5Give it 2/5Give it 3/5Give it 4/5Give it 5/5 Rate Jan 6, 2024 Addiction is a devastating disease. A patient can leave treatment completely confident in their ability to remain abstinent and find themselves so overwhelmed by the intensity of their cravings that they start using again the very same day. Continue Reading...
Introducing State-of-the-Art Outcomes Research for OBOTs and OTPs Article Select ratingGive it 1/5Give it 2/5Give it 3/5Give it 4/5Give it 5/5 Rate Aug 25, 2023 As payers move inexorably towards value-based reimbursement, many OBOTs, OTPs, and telehealth-based medication-assisted treatment providers are being asked for something new -- outcomes research that proves how effective their treatment is. Continue Reading...
Why Proving Your Treatment Is Effective Requires High Response Rates Article Select ratingGive it 1/5Give it 2/5Give it 3/5Give it 4/5Give it 5/5 Rate Oct 28, 2022 If you want to show that your treatment center’s outcomes are better than average, you must use an outcomes research methodology that entices a high percentage of your patients to respond. Continue Reading...
How Do Your Treatment Completion Rates Compare? Article Select ratingGive it 1/5Give it 2/5Give it 3/5Give it 4/5Give it 5/5 Rate Jun 30, 2021 We've been surprised by the wide range of treatment completion rates among our clients. Among short-term residential treatment programs attending an Outcomes Summit, the percentage of patients who successfully completed treatment ranged between 43% and 97%. Continue Reading...
Addiction Treatment Outcomes +20% in Second Year of Research Article Select ratingGive it 1/5Give it 2/5Give it 3/5Give it 4/5Give it 5/5 Rate Mar 12, 2021 Among 17 respected addiction treatment centers, 20% more patients were abstinent six months after discharge in their second year of using outcomes research vs. their first year! Continue Reading...
What Is It Costing You Not to Do Outcomes Research? Article Select ratingGive it 1/5Give it 2/5Give it 3/5Give it 4/5Give it 5/5 Rate Oct 8, 2020 Many treatment centers spend hundreds of thousands of dollars annually on marketing to get prospective patients to pick up the phone. But they never think about how many of these prospects they’re losing because they can’t answer the second most-commonly-asked question of prospective patients - Continue Reading...
Why It's Inaccurate to Extrapolate Success Rates from a Small Base of Patients Article Select ratingGive it 1/5Give it 2/5Give it 3/5Give it 4/5Give it 5/5 Rate Jul 10, 2020 Vista Research Group often gets asked why we don’t report a treatment center’s abstinence success rate based solely upon the responses of the patients we reach post-treatment. Continue Reading...
Introducing Conquer Addiction with Rehab Success Ratings! Article Select ratingGive it 1/5Give it 2/5Give it 3/5Give it 4/5Give it 5/5 Rate Jun 9, 2020 Conquer Addiction will officially launch its searchable database of addiction treatment centers on June 30th, allowing families to search for rehabs which have proven through well-designed outcomes research that they’re providing effective treatment for the first time! Continue Reading...
Promoting Treatment Center Success Article Select ratingGive it 1/5Give it 2/5Give it 3/5Give it 4/5Give it 5/5 Rate Jun 1, 2020 Treatment outcomes matter. More than simply for the purpose of promoting your program, they matter because great treatment has a high potential for saving lives. Continue Reading...
Using Outcomes Research to Improve Clinical Care & Differentiate Your Program Article Select ratingGive it 1/5Give it 2/5Give it 3/5Give it 4/5Give it 5/5 Rate Feb 24, 2020 Academic research has shown that the process of monitoring how patients are feeling during treatment helps patients get better faster, particularly those hard-to-treat patients who are struggling. Continue Reading...